An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
form of writing raised to the highest level of expressive communication. Carl William Brown



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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON RANKS

 

 

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

 

Giovanni Ruffini

 

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

 

Leszczynski Stanislaus (1677-1766, Polish King)

 

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

 

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)

 

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

 

William Wycherley (1640-1716, British dramatist)

 

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